Thus, the original argument (the “Value Misspecification Argument”) is wrong and the people who believed it should at least stop believing it).
That post is confused about what MIRI ever believed, and john’s comment does a really good job of explaining why. I’m guessing you put that first paragraph in for for rhetorical contrast, rather than thinking it’s a true summary of any particular person’s past beliefs, but I think doing this is corrosive to group epistemics. It’s really handy to be able to keep track of what people believed and whether they updated on new evidence, and this process is damaged when people misrepresent what other people previously believed.
Hm, I was indeed being cartoonishly over-the-top. Sonnet 4.5 also pointed this out. I felt like I was at the same time making fun of the people making the accusation and the accused, but on reflection that’s not much better—I’m happy I didn’t name names. Might edit.
Edit: Added two hedging words in the first paragraph as a first measure.
Yeah makes sense. I don’t want to make it harder to write stuff though. The contrast does make the shortform rhetorically better and that is good. With these comments as context, it doesn’t seem super necessary to edit it.
That post is confused about what MIRI ever believed, and john’s comment does a really good job of explaining why. I’m guessing you put that first paragraph in for for rhetorical contrast, rather than thinking it’s a true summary of any particular person’s past beliefs, but I think doing this is corrosive to group epistemics. It’s really handy to be able to keep track of what people believed and whether they updated on new evidence, and this process is damaged when people misrepresent what other people previously believed.
Hm, I was indeed being cartoonishly over-the-top. Sonnet 4.5 also pointed this out. I felt like I was at the same time making fun of the people making the accusation and the accused, but on reflection that’s not much better—I’m happy I didn’t name names. Might edit.
Edit: Added two hedging words in the first paragraph as a first measure.
Yeah makes sense. I don’t want to make it harder to write stuff though. The contrast does make the shortform rhetorically better and that is good. With these comments as context, it doesn’t seem super necessary to edit it.